New soil, new STEMs for Maine graduates

GUEST COLUMN

BY RONALD CANTOR

Elementary school students want to be scientists, astronauts, doctors and nurses when they grow up. With unlimited imaginations, they dream about building cities and inventing machines yet unknown.
Their enthusiasm starts to dissipate in middle school. By the end of high school and into college, precious few remain committed to fields of scientific or mathematical discovery.

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